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Europe needs to rearm itself and should not buy from non-allied states and neither from authocratic governments. We should not only stop buying weapons from China, but also US, Israel and Turkey (at least as long as Erdogan is in power). We need to put our money in strengthening our own weapon industry and that of countries we either pledged protection to or allied ourselves to. In this light I'm really happy we are increasing purchases from Taiwan and Ukraine. Hopefully we will also continue doing business with South-Korea and Japan because Taiwain is hopelessly lost without the help of those two countries.

It's not, it's in the European broadcasting union. Armenia and Algeria are also member. Australia (kangaroo) also participates in the Songfestival.

For me personally there being a pro-israeli contestant isn't enough to boycott or ban them from participating. I can see how for some people the large israeli sponsors might be enough to boycott or ban them. But for me what really does it is the political effort to gather votes for the israeli candidate - they've put out ads to get people to vote for israel, especially targeting people who normally wouldn't watch it. There is plenty of social media posts of people saying they voted for israel 20 times and not having seen a single thing except maybe a performance on youtube. Manipulating the vote is a gross violation of the rules and Israel should be punished for that.

I have an old one with a battery, which is not what you're asking for but it has a feauture i have really come to like: you have to put the alarm on everytime. Having it go off every day automatically is a huge convienienxe that radio alarms, wake-up lights and smartphones have; but setting the alarm to wake up at a specific time next day is some kind of magic agreement with the universe. I'm not necessarily a believer in manifesting your destiny, but setting an intention like this really helps me out in the morning. Just wanting to put that out there.

Yes limited editions are definitely the worst of capitalism, we don't need new flavours ever!

Scotland is among the most beautiful places i've ever been & scots themselves are amazing as long as you dont have an english accent lol.

he unfortunately only finds himself attracted to women

I don't know many straight guys who actually think that, yet it do know multiple gay men who are low-key misogynists and really glad they're not into women. I feel like "Not Gay Name" is a younger version of a gay man i know, who almost got married to a woman who eventually found out he was cheating just not with girls.

He's talanted and well known and there are other countries

Is there a pool going on whether "Not Gay Name" is actually gay too? He sounds so closeted, it'd be easy money.

Trans rights are human rights

I totally agree Russia adds a lot of fuel to this fire, but it's not like they started it or are the only one tending it. Far-right everywhere uses the narrative of 'your country is changing and it's all because of immigrants', but don't forget they are exploiting an underlying fear that was already there.

if IDF harms them it will more likely be the isreal equivalent of falling from a window. More likely they will arrest them at gunshot and sink the ship. In that case the west doesn't need video evidence as it has eyewitness testimonies. Let's hope they are not betting on a single horse here.

I think israel will be more careful with non-palestinians. Not saying they will let them stop the genocide, but can't imagine Israel doing the people on the flotilla like they did the ambulance workers. But I have been wrong before, so i'm concerned for their safety too.

short looping videos

is being worked on by the team behind Pixelfed, it's not on ActivityPub as of yet but it is intended to become part of the fediverse: https://loops.video/

Crazy right, I mean how much damage could these 13 young people even do even if they had weapons. It's not like they're on a container ship either, they're not even in bullet proof vests or anything.

"To the antisemitic Greta and her fellow Hamas propaganda spokespeople, I say clearly: You should turn back—because you will not reach Gaza," Katz said, referring to Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, one of the 12 people on board. "Israel will act against any attempt to break the blockade or assist terrorist organizations—at sea, in the air, and on land."

I really don't like the post-truth world :(.

Pasting the video's description here, because it is worth reading (+ lyrics!)
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"I Was Born This Way" is a disco song by Valentino, released in 1975, then by Carl Bean in 1977 (both artists for Motown), and a re-recording in 1995 by country singer Johnny Rodriguez. It was written by Chris Spierer and Bunny Jones. The record was first released on the Motown-distributed Gaiee Records and performed by Valentino (real name Charles Harris). Frankie Crocker of WBLS Radio in New York first aired the song and it was an instant hit. The writers, Chris Spierer and Bunny Jones wanted to write a Gay anthem and make the plight on Gay issues known and bring it to the forefront.

The song's lyrics is about a man who proclaims that he's gay and that he was "born this way". It was one of the first gay disco songs written specifically for the Gay community, before the Village People wave.

It was also sampled in 1999 by Stuart Price, using the alias Pour Homme, as "Born this Way". It was a tremendous hit in Europe.

In 2008, Magnus Carlsson, Sweden's popular gay male vocalist re-recorded 3 versions of "I Was Born This Way" in addition to Paul Oskar of Norway. Magnus Carlsson can be seen performing "I Was Born This Way" on YouTube as well as Marty Thomas of the Broadway hit show "Wicked".

Valentino's version was a success in UK (where it was a #1 disco hit) and in the USA.

In 1978, the Carl Bean version on Motown Records became a club hit on the Billboard Club Play Singles at #15. The song was later remixed in 1995 on Next Plateau Records, then was on the Pet Shop Boys' 20th Anniversary album "Back to Mine" in 2005. West End Records released a CD mixed by DJ Gomi which included 6 versions of the song as well as a two-part 12" Vinyl Edition.

Two versions of "I Was Born This Way" (Bean's, and a newer recording by Jimmy Somerville) were featured in the 2006 independent film "Another Gay Movie". Bean went on to entitle his autobiography I Was Born This Way.

For the past 38 years since it was written, it has become an anthem for the gay community and has been on countless compilation albums as well as being (sampled) on other recordings many times.

Carl Bean (May 26, 1944 – September 7, 2021) was an American singer and activist who was the founding prelate of the Unity Fellowship Church Movement, a liberal protestant denomination that is particularly welcoming of lesbians, gay and bisexual African Americans. Before founding the first church of the denomination, the Unity Fellowship Church, Los Angeles, in 1975, Bean was a Motown and disco singer, noted particularly for his version of the early gay liberation song "I Was Born This Way". He was openly gay.

In 1982, Bean became an activist, working on behalf of people with AIDS.

Bean's autobiography, I Was Born This Way, came out in 2010. He died at the age of 77 in 2021.

I'm walking through life in nature's disguise
You laugh at me and you criticize
'Cause I'm happy, carefree and gay
Yes, I'm gay
Ain't no fault - it's a fact
I was born this way - yeah
Now I won't judge you - don't you judge me
We're all the way nature meant us to be

Chorus
I'm happy, I'm carefree and I'm gay
I was born this way

You call me strange 'cause you don't understand
God's role for me in life's overall plan
I've learned to hold my head up high
Not in scorn nor disgrace
Doin' my thing individually
Entwined with this human race

Now I won't judge you - don't you judge me
We're all the way nature meant us to be

Chorus

You laugh at me and you got the nerve to criticize
If I were you I'd sit down
And consider what you're doin'
Love me and I love you
And together ain't no tellin' what we'll do
Yeah - born I said
From a little bitty bitty boy
I was born this way

I love you, I love you
And even you - born this way - yeah
I'm tellin' y'all one more time
I was born this way, proud to tell it
I was born this way
Gonna shout it, tell the world about it
I was born this way
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Putin cannot keep the Russian economy going without spending a lot of money on weapons, he has no way back.